Peters



No. 236,419. Patented Jam, 1881.

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CHARLES Gr. DOBBS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DECORATING BUTTONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,419, dated January 11, 1881.

Application filed December 6, 1880.

T 0 all whom at may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES G. DoBBs, of the city. county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Decorating Buttons and Similar Articles, of which the following; is a specification.

My object in this improvement is primarily to obtain in an economical yet effective way the effect of steel points or diamonds set in the face of a button. It is in this connection that I will describe the improvement, although it will be manifest that the same method of decoration may be applied not only to buttons, but to other objects.

My improvement may be briefly stated to consist in dtilling or otherwise forming, in the face of the article, which we will suppose is a button, holes, preferably cylindrical, and then putting in these holes powdered or finely-divided tinsel or other glittering material, the particles being caused to adhere to the bottom, and also the sides, to some extent, of the hole, by some adhesive substance. The powdered tinsel which is thus sunk in the hole produces theeti'ect of a steel point-ordtamond, and. being below the face ot'the button, is thoroughly protected.

The accompanying; drawings represent, in perspective, Figure l, and in section, Fig. 2, a pearl or shell button made in accordance with my invention.

I drill small holes a in the button, and I then sink in the holes powdered or finely-divided tinsel or other glittering material I), which is held in its sunken position in the hole by means of a suitable ad hl'sive substance previously applied to the button.

In case of a rubber or other composition button the holes may be formed in the button at (ModeL) any time durin g the process of its manufacture, 40

by molding or otherwise, and the tinsel may be either put into the holes during the making of the button, or after the same has been completed, provided there be retained the feature essential to the production of the effect which is the object of my improvementviz., holes in the face of the button or other article, and finely-divided or powdered tinsel orother glittering material sunken in these holes below the face of the article. I a

My improvement is, of course, applicable to metal buttons also.

lam aware that it has before been proposed to make a button with indentations in its face, which may be colored or stained, if desired; and this I do not claim.

NVh-at I claim as my invention, and. desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The improvement in the art of decorating buttons and similar articles which consists in forming holes (of suitable shape in cross-section) in the button or other article, and sinking therein powdered or finely-divided tinsel or glittering material, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a button with powdered or finely-divided tinsel or glittering material in holes sunken in the face of the button so as to be below the surface of the same, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 3d day of December, 1880.

CHAS. G. DOBBS.

Witnesses S. VAN ZANDT, THos. BAILEY. 

